England, Netherlands drawn in Cup final
NZPA-Reuter ( Rome World Cup plans to contain soccer hooligans were blown apart yesterday when England and the Netherlands were drawn together in group F at next year’s finals. The English and Dutch will play on June 16 in the Sardinian capital of Cagliari, a fixture which will revive painful memories of the encounter between the same two nations at last year’s European championship in West Germany. The notorious fans of both countries clashed violently before the match and, in spite of a massive turnout by riot police, turned the centre of Duesseldorf into something resembling a battle zone. Ironically, England was seeded in group F in an attempt to isolate its potential hooligan fans on the Sardinian island where it was thought it would be easier to deal with any trouble. Ireland and Egypt complete group F in the 24-nation finals where teams are
divided into six groups of four for the first-round matches. The draw is not likely to please either the English or the Dutch. Ireland were also in their group at the European championship, beating England 1-0 and coming within eight minutes of a draw with the Netherlands which would have seen the eventual winners eliminated, t The draw for the 1990 World Cup soccer finals in Italy is (seeded country first in each group).— Group A (Rome/Florence): Italy, Austria, United States, Czechoslovakia. Group B (Naples/Bari): Argentina, Cameroun, Soviet Union, Romania. Group C (Turin/Genoa): Brazil, Sweden, Costa Rica, Scotland. Group D (Milan/Bologna): West Germany, Yugoslavia, United Arab Emirates, Colombia. Group E (Verona/Udine): Belgium, South Korea, Uruguay, Spain. Group F (Cagliari/Palermo): England, Ireland, Netherlands, Egypt.
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